There is a new phishing scam that has been making the e-mail rounds this month. It’s made to resemble a GoDaddy email telling you that your account has too many directories. They attempt to get you to follow a link to automatically “fix” this issue – alas that link really points to a Russian domain […]
Author Archives: Michael Boguslavskiy
Introducing The Bing Image Widget
Bing has launched another widget for webmasters allowing you to easily incorporate image galleries and slideshows onto your website using the images within the Bing image search. You simply choose what keyword you want to pull images for, set your dimensions and style settings, choose whether you want a collage or a slideshow – and […]
2 Weeks Left To Make The Most Of Your eCig Related Google Adwords Ads
At the start of September Google announced a change to their Google Adwords policy banning the advertisement of electronic cigarettes, airsoft guns, paintball guns, bb guns, gun scopes, ammunition …
HostGator’s Smoke The Competition Sale Is Live!
Running right now and lasting through until midnight tonight (11:59PM CST) HostGator is running a brand new flash sale giving you 45% off all new hosting packages and domain name registrations starting at just $8/year. The 45% off discount applies to all billing cycles (monthly, 6 months, 12 months, etc). Furthermore no coupon code is required. Simply head on […]
Issuing SQL Statements Using PHP Data Objects
This tutorial expands upon our previous PHP Data Objects tutorial, which discusses how to connect to a MySQL database, and showcases how to communicate with that MySQL database once you are connected. Depending on the type of query you want to run you’ll be issuing statements in two different ways: For example let’s say you need to […]
I Get To Play With Google Domains
Google sent me over an invite to the new Google Domains beta a few days ago and since then I’ve been playing around with the platform and getting familiar with it. After using it for a few days and going through the entire process to purchase a domain name and get it setup – I […]
Hey Photographers, Yahoo Wants You To Get Paid!
Late at the end of July Yahoo, quietly, released Curated Connections on Flickr – a program aimed at helping photographers to partner with photo agencies, editors, bloggers and other creative minds who are looking for original content. More-so Flickr seems to be taking on the grunt work here making it extremely easy to license your photos: […]
Google Updates Webmaster Guidelines to Include Guest Blogging
Google’s Matt Cutts announced back in January of this year the death of guest blogging – and since then Google has been sure to push the stake in deeper and deeper into the heart …
Midphase Hosting Launches New Plan & 40% Off Coupon
It seems the Bluehost change to multiple hosting plans has sparked a bit of a shift in the hosting industry as today Midphase hosting, part of UK2 Group, announced the introduction of a 3rd hosting package themselves. Midphase has always primarily offered two hosting plans – Personal and Business. Both plans offered unlimited space & […]
Russia Launches New Legislative Restrictions on Bloggers
As of August 1st, 2014 all blogs which have 3,000 daily readers or more will be forced to follow the same set of rules and standards as conventional mass media. The law was signed by Vladimir Putin back in May and and applies to all blogs written in Russian and targeting Russian audiences. So even […]
Knowledge Widget Now Integrated Into Bing Webmaster Tools
Back in April I had talked about the new Bing Knowledge Widget which allows any webmaster to bring the power of the Bing Knowledge repository directly to their website. Bing didn’t stop …
Bing Makes Technical Searches Easier
As a webmaster chances are pretty high that you’ve ran some technical searches in the past. Maybe you were reading through our tutorial series on Programming in C and wanted to dig deeper into a specific function; or maybe you were browsing through some of the software in our Free Webmasters Resource Directory and wanted […]
Starting Today Internet Explorer Starts Blocking Outdated ActiveX Controls
It’s always been a popular thing among webmasters to bash Internet Explorer – and truthfully there was always good reason for it. Lately however Microsoft has been hard at work …
Google Maps Will Have A Street View From Statue of Liberty
So this isn’t exactly webmaster news – however since Rapid Purple is based out of New York City it’s pretty exciting news for us that Google Maps has been given permission to map Ellis …
HTTPS Will Now Give You Ranking Benefits in Google
Google announced late last week that they are now using SSL/HTTPS as a small ranking signal within their Google search algorithm. Yes, a small ranking signal – or in the words of Google: “a very lightweight signal” which is shown to impact “fewer than 1% of global queries“. Google equated the SSL ranking signal with the Panda signal and […]
Connecting To A Database Using PHP Data Objects
With the release of PHP 5.5.0 the mysql_* functions have become deprecated and as such connecting to a MySQL database with PHP 5.5 and up will require the use of either PHP Data Objects (PDO) or an individual MySQL driver (MySQLi). Throughout this tutorial we will focus on utilizing PDO to connect, access, and disconnect from […]
Bluehost Starts Testing New Shared Hosting Plans
As far as shared hosting goes Bluehost has always focused on one standard unlimited shared hosting plan – however as the hosting industry evolves Bluehost understands that they must as-well. The latest launch of Bluehosts’ WordPress hosting solution proves that. With that said Bluehost has announced plans to change to a three-plan model and introduce […]
Google Launches News Publisher Center
At the start of this week Google announced the launch of the Google News Publisher Center which is a pretty awesome tool for any news publisher. In the past news publishers would frequently loose traffic as they changed and upgraded their websites since Google News wouldn’t always discover the new structure. The only way to […]
PHP 5.6.0 Now Available for All Rapid Purple Hosting Clients
As you may know by now I strive to maintain a perfect development environment here with Rapid Purple Hosting. With that said just a few days after it was officially announced by the PHP development team, the latest bugfix-only release of PHP 5.6.0 is now available on all of our client servers. This is the third RC version of PHP […]
Save 20% Off on Yola Silver During Summer 2014
Yola has announced their latest promotional sale good for a 20% saving on 1 year of Yola Silver. This sale brings back an older discount from June which unfortunately only lasted for a few days. Luckily this one is sticking around until August 31st, 2014. Simply use coupon code [coupon code=”Yola MAKE20″ /] during your checkout process […]